Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Magnolia White Corporation

Takashi Tsuchiya

Masami Ogata

Kazuhiko Ueda

Katsutoshi Ando

Akihiro Okumura

Ichiro Fujisawa

Katsumi Kaneko

Hiroshi Ogawa

Fumihiko Sudo

Osamu Ishii

Tetsuo Kaneko

Kaichi Fukuda

Motohiro Nakasuji

Nobuo Imai

Yuya Yamamoto

Kazuhiro Sugeno

According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a display device includes forming a lower electrode, forming an insulating layer covering the lower electrode, forming a partition including a lower portion on the insulating layer and an upper portion protruding from a side surface of the lower portion, forming, after the forming of the partition, a pixel aperture in the insulating layer, forming an organic layer in contact with the lower electrode via the aperture, forming an upper electrode which covering the organic layer and patterning the organic layer and the upper electrode to form a display element.

Method of manufacturing display device

There are provided an information processing system, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, an information processing program, an imaging apparatus, a method of controlling the imaging apparatus, and a control program capable of easily performing color matching in a plurality of imaging apparatuses. The information processing system includes: an imaging apparatus that operates in a master mode; at least one imaging apparatus that operates in a slave mode; and an information processing apparatus. Each of the imaging apparatus in the master mode and the imaging apparatus in the slave mode sends a chart image generated by capturing an image of a specific chart to the information processing apparatus, and the information processing apparatus calculates a color conversion coefficient in the imaging apparatus in the slave mode on the basis of the chart image generated by the imaging apparatus in the master mode, and sends the color conversion coefficient to the imaging apparatus corresponding to the color conversion coefficient.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, imaging apparatus, method of controlling imaging apparatus, and control program for controlling based on color conversion coefficient

An image processing apparatus includes: a representative value calculation unit that selects a designation area from a first image, and that calculates a representative value of each of the color components in the designation area, a class classification unit that performs class classification on the designation area, a coefficient reading unit that reads a coefficient that is stored in advance, a color component conversion unit that sets the pixel value relating to a predetermined pixel within the designation area to be a prediction tap, sets the pixel value of one color component, to be a reference, and converts the pixel value of each color component into a conversion value, and a product and sum calculation unit that sets the conversion value to be a variable and calculates each of the pixel values of a second image, by performing product and sum calculation which uses the coefficient which is read.

Image processing of a color image produced by a one-chip pixel unit using interpolation of color components produced by the one-chip pixel unit

An image processing apparatus includes a class tap selection unit that selects pixel values related to pixels corresponding to a plurality of color components as a class tap, from a first image formed by image signals which are output from a single-plate type pixel portion, a class sorting unit that sorts out target pixels of second images as any one of a plurality of classes on the basis of a feature amount of the class tap, a prediction tap selection unit that selects pixel values related to pixels corresponding to a first color component of the plurality of color components as a prediction tap from the first image, and a product-sum operation unit that uses the pixel values of the first color component of the prediction tap as variables, and operates pixel values of the second images through a product-sum operation using the read coefficient.

Image processing apparatus and method, and program

There is provided an image processing apparatus including: a prediction tap selection unit which selects a pixel which is a prediction tap used for prediction operation for acquiring a pixel value of a target pixel which is a target from a second image obtained by converting a first image, from the first image; a classification unit which classifies the target pixel to any class from a plurality of classes; a tap coefficient output unit which outputs a tap coefficient of a class of the target pixel from tap coefficients, acquired by learning to minimize an error between a result of the prediction operation using a student image corresponding to the first image and a teacher image corresponding to the second image; and an operation unit which acquires a pixel value of the target pixel by performing the prediction operation using the tap coefficient and the prediction tap.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program to prevent degradation of image quality

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

An image signal generation portiongenerates an image signal of a variable frame-rate picked-up image. A signal generation control portiondrives the image signal generation portionand generates image pick-up setting information IF to generate an image signal that is frame-synchronized with a generated image signal DVd. The generated image signal DVd is output in condition where the image pick-up setting information IF is inserted in it. When supplied with image pick-up setting information IFex, the signal generation control portioncontrols the driving operations of the image signal generation portionbased on the image pick-up setting information IFex, to frame-synchronize the generated image signal with an image signal of a reference variable frame-rate picked-up image of a source that has supplied the image pick-up setting information IFex. If a plurality of image pick-up devices capable of varying a frame rate is used, the image signals can be frame-synchronized with each other.

Image pick-up apparatus and synchronization-signal-generating apparatus

A preprocessor performs a signal processing operation by using an image signal DVa generated by picking up a subject image. A frame adder adds frames of an image signal DVb generated by the preprocessor so as to generate an image signal DVc with a changed frame rate. When changing the setting of the signal processing operation of the preprocessor, the signal processing operation is restarted with the new setting at the start or at the end of a frame addition period (in units of frame addition periods) of the frame adder based on a determination signal indicating the frame addition period.

Image pickup apparatus with frame addition

In an image pickup apparatus, a level compensator compensates the level of an image xL (i, j) sensed by an image sensor by exposure for a long time on the basis of the exposure of the image to produce a compensated image xL' (i, j), while another level compensator compensates the level of an image xS (i, j) sensed by the image sensor by exposure for a short time on the basis of the exposure of the image to produce a compensated image xS&#x2032; (i, j). The image pickup apparatus also includes an image synthesizer to synthesize these compensates images xL&#x2032; (i, j) and xS&#x2032; (i, j) to produce a single synthetic image x (i, j). A dynamic range compressor also included in the image pickup apparatus compresses the synthetic image x (i, j) to produce a compressed image y (i, j) for delivery to outside.

Methods and systems for synthesizing pickup images

The invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method. An area to which image data belongs is discriminated, and a correction coefficient to be used for correction of a pixel value of the image data is produced based on a result of the discrimination. Then, the pixel value of the image data is corrected with the correction coefficient. The relationship in magnitude among pixel values in the same area is maintained because the same coefficient is used, but pixel values which belong to different areas can be varied or even reversed. This allows the gradation of an entire image to be corrected while preventing partial deterioration of the contrast.

Image gradation correction based on switching resolution of correction coefficients

The present invention realizes a function equivalent to an optical half-ND filter electrically and incorporates this function in an image-signal processing system, thereby to compress the dynamic range of images, both effectively and flexibly. The present invention provides an imaging apparatus including an imaging unit that photographs an object, thereby to generate a video signal, a pattern-generating unit that generates a two-dimensional gradation pattern, and a multiplying unit that multiplies the video signal by a gain that corresponds to the two-dimensional gradation pattern.

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Takashi Tsuchiya